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BURNING

Why do we break
The promises we make?

Why do we take
What's not given?

Have we risen
From falling below the shallows

Take a misstep,
And fall headfirst under.

We make mistakes,
With consequences and blunders.


But we never learn.

We just get







.BURNED.




(NOTE: NOTICE HOW THE FIRST LINE IS SHORTER THAN THE SECOND. NOTICE THE WAVE SHAPE OF THE POEM AND THE RELATIVITY TO THE LAST WORD. THE ORANGE YELLOW BLUE BURNING FIRE INSIDE MY BODY RAVAGING MY INSIDES. MY EMOTIONS. BURNING TO MAKE A ANEW BEGINNING, TO START OVER.)
MY ASS.
I CAN DREAM RIGHT?
Poem by mannaquin